MEMORANDUM
EFAL GRADE 12
PAPER 2 (SEPTEMBER 2012)
QUESTION 1 – TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
LONG QUESTION
There are some characters in the story that can identify with the mockingbird. Comment on why these characters can be seen as mockingbirds.
Symbolism of mockingbird
A persons being compared to a mockingbird would be someone who does nobody any harm. All the person wants to do, is sing. Singing could mean deeds that bring pleasure to others. People who are mockingbirds won’t harm anybody else, they just enjoy life and make life better for others.
Tom Robinson
He is harmless because he is a cripple. Physically he can not harm anybody.
He only tried to be nice to Mayella Ewell by doing some chores for her.
Even his employer said he never had day’s trouble from Tom
In the end Tom Robinson is convicted of rape even though it was clear he was innocent.
He was shot when he tried to escape, even though he might not have been able to climb that fence with only one arm.
He was truly a harmless person.
Dolphus Raymond
Dolphus Raymond loves people of all races and he is no racist.
Because he lives with a coloured woman, the community rejects him.
Dolphus has harmed nobody and he makes sure that all his children receive good educations.
He pretends to be an alcoholic so that the community can explain his behaviour.
Boo Radley
Boo Radley did something wrong as a juvenile and has ever since been restricted to his house.
He has never really harmed anybody and nobody sees him.
He saves Scout and Jem from Ewell’s attack by killing Bob Ewell.
Scout states that it would be like killing a mockingbird if they exposed Boo’s actions to the public because people would never stop crossing his doorstep and that would be like killing Boo Radley.
Boo only wanted to save the children, he never wanted to become a hero.
Jem and Scout
All Jem and Scout want to do is play.
They harm nobody and they had absolutely nothing to do with Atticus defending Tom Robinson.
For Bob Ewell to try and kill them was like killing a mockingbird.
The children were completely innocent and harmed nobody.
Mayella Ewell
Mayella was a normal girl with desires and she was lonely.
She wanted to be in love and got the wrong impression from Tom Robinson when he was nice to her.
All she wanted him to do, was touch her and make her feel worth something.
For Bob Ewell to beat her up afterwards and for abusing his own daughter, was like killing a mockingbird.
Mayella never intended to harm anybody but she had to, because society expected it from her.
QUESTION 2 – CONTEXTUAL
2.1.1 She was not allowed to hit anybody who insulted Atticus. (1)
2.1.2 She said Atticus was lawyering for niggers and she said Scout would be waiting tables. She always had terrible things to say to the children when they passed her house. (2)
2.1.3 “something I’d do as a matter of course” Scout is usually the one who loses her head and acts out physically while Jem usually stayed calm and seldom lost control. People would understand if Scout damaged the flowers but it was unusual for Jem to act this way.(2)
2.1.4 A – insulted (1)
2.1.5 Why is it appropriate that the phrase forgetting is repeated three times?
It stresses how angry Jem is. He is so angry that he has forgotten things.
What does this suggest about Jem’s frame of mind?
He is so angry that he can’t remember things and he is not thinking rationally. (3)
2.1.6 Not for long. Jem has just bought it for her. (1)
2.1.7 The travelling of news is being compared to some voo-doo system. Voo-doo refers to magic. (2)
2.1.8 The children always meet Atticus. By not meeting Atticus they are already showing to Atticus that something wrong has happened. OR Even if they did not meet Atticus at the corner, he would come home eventually and they would have to face him (2)
2.1.9 Yes, she was a defenselss old lady and the flowers did nothing to him. He could have told her politely that he did not appreciate the way that she was talking. (2)
2.1.10 He had to go and read for Mrs Dubose in the afternoons. (1)
2.2.1 D
C
A
B (4)
2.2.2 He always drinks
He lives with a coloured woman
He produced mixed children (third reason may be any reason that makes sense)(3)
2.2.3 He drinks
He mixes with coloureds (2)
2.2.4 a) Mr Raymond offers Dill a drink from his sack, which could be alcohol. Dill, as a child, should not be drinking alcohol (2)
b) You are not allowed to carry alcohol in public places
It hides the fact that it is only Coca-cola. (2)
2.2.5 FALSE: “I pretend” OR “plain Coca-cola” (2)
2.2.6 He always sits with the coloureds.
He has a coloured wife and mixed children
He lives near the county line, with coloureds on his own land. (2)
2.2.7 He likes coloureds. (1)
QUESTION 13
13.1.1 Apostrophe (1)
13.1.2 Death is being addressed as a person. (2)
13.2 FALSE: “thou art not so”
13.3.1 picture
13.3.2 rest
13.3.3 pleasure (1½)
13.4 rest/sleep/drug infused stupor/magic (3)
13.5 dangerous murderers/men who will kill to get what they want (1)
13.6 fate, chance, wars, desprate men, poison, sickness (2)
13.7 A (1)
13.8 Death has no hold on a person because you don’t really die, you move on to eternal life after death, so death is just a transition. (2)
13.9 Yes/No Reason (2) Open response
QUESTION 14
14.1.1 ambulance
14.1.2 crash
14.1.3 victims (1½)
14.2 It pulses like an artery bleeding
It lands softly as if it has wings
It has a bell that is beating (3)
14.3 Victims were bleeding (1)
14.4 The victims are treated like cargo, they are loaded without respect. (2)
14.5.1 metaphor (1)
14.5.2 He wants to describe that the wreck of the car looks like the empty husk of a locust. Once the person is removed from the car, the car is just a metal husk, wrapped around an iron pole. (2)
14.6 TRUE “Already old, the question, Who shall die?”
But this invites the occult mind (2)
14.7 C depressed (1)
14.8 Who is going to die? (1)
14.9 No. Occult
An accident leaves you without a denouement (3)
QUESTION 15
15.1.1 oppressed
15.1.2 work
15.1.3 masters (1½)
15.2.1 personification (1)
15.2.2 He tries to explain that the oxen walks slowly, as if they have all the time in the world.(2)
15.3 sleepwalker (1)
15.4.1 It pains the zulu servant to be ploughing because in zulu custom he is doing a woman’s job. (1)
15.4.2 It is a woman’s job.
He is forced to do it
He is not a servant but a warrior (1)
15.5 C metaphor (1)
15.6 thrones – authority
towers – wealth (2)
15.7 Example of alliteration (Why was it used)(2)
15.8 TRUE –The timeless, surly patience of the serf (2)
15.9 tone of voice (open ended) (1)
15.10 figurative – you can not plough down those things (2)
QUESTION 16
16.1.1 chance
16.1.2 predator
16.1.3 prey (1½)
16.2 The cheetah is innocent/playful (1)
16.3 Leopards are well proportioned
Cheetahs appear out of proportion, the comical form of the leopard. (2)
16.4 A orangey brown (1)
16.5 slouching, lolling (2)
16.6 fatal (1)
16.7.1 simile (1) And vibrant as a hunter’s bow
16.7.2 The cheetah is compared to a hunter’s bow. It is ready to strike. (2)
16.8 They smell the cheetah on the breeze. (scent) (pungent breeze) (2)
16.9 true – his stealth and fitness flings a noose (2)
16.10 Yes grinning gangling pup content
loose limbed lolling
fleck of mottled light
his stealth and swiftness fling a noose
as his loping strides begin
blur with speed, he ropes the loose